Your videos, photos and music, on the TV you already own.
CastHero is a media receiver for the television. Send it a link from a phone or a computer on the same network and it plays within seconds – no account, no pairing code, no sign-in.
One product, three receivers, the same behaviour on each: a Roku channel, a Google Cast receiver, and an app for Android TV, Google TV and Fire TV. Whichever television is in the room, CastHero is the receiver for it.
Find your TV
What you can play
How it works
What it does once it is playing
The same on every receiver, except where a line says otherwise.
Albums with transitions
Send a whole list of photos, videos and songs and CastHero plays them back to back like a photo album on the big screen. Choose fade, slide or zoom transitions and how long each photo stays, and move through it by hand with the arrows whenever you want to.
A player made for the remote
The title, the time played and the time remaining are one press away. The arrows skip 15 seconds, and 30, 45 and 60 when you keep pressing; hold one down to scrub. Play pauses and resumes. In an album, left and right move between items. Back returns to the home screen.
Live streams
A live stream plays with a red LIVE badge in place of the countdown, and the arrows stop seeking, so nothing pretends to be rewindable when it is not. Internet radio plays the same way, with the artwork on screen.
M3U and IPTV channel lists
Send an M3U playlist and the television reads it and builds a channel list: up and down change channel (or CH+ and CH− on remotes that have them), left and right move within the programme, and OK opens the full list, grouped the way the playlist groups it.
Android TV and Fire TV only
A Recent row
Public links you have cast stay in a Recent row on the home screen, so the same stream or channel list is one press away next time. The row lives on the television and you can clear it whenever you like.
Android TV and Fire TV only
Private by design
No account, no sign-in, no ads, nothing to buy, no tracking and no analytics. Media plays straight from the link you send, over your own network, and is never uploaded anywhere. Read the privacy policy.
How it works
Three steps, once.
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Put the receiver on the TV
One receiver per television, installed the way that television installs things.
Roku: from the Streaming Store, or with access code PHT6JK5.
Google Cast: nothing to install; the TV loads it when you cast. Live now.
Android TV and Google TV: from Google Play. Fire TV: from the Amazon Appstore once that listing is up. Then cast to it from casthero.app/cast/androidtv.
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Open it on the TV
The home screen shows this television’s name and address and a “CastHero is ready” indicator, so you know which TV you are about to cast to.
On Google Cast the receiver opens by itself the first time you cast to the television.
On Android TV and Fire TV, open CastHero on the TV before you cast: it receives while its screen is on, and BACK on the home screen closes it.
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Cast to it
From a phone, a computer or a browser on the same network, choose the television and send a link. It plays within seconds.
The CastHero phone apps are still in development. Until they ship, cast to Android TV and Fire TV from the web caster, and to Google Cast from casthero.app/cast.
